Fueled by 9 million life-to-date copies of PC/Mac version, total franchise sales reach new milestone.

Minecraft for PC and Mac has now sold 9 million copies, per sales data published on the official Minecraft website. According to a tweet from Mojang’s Jens Bergensten, total franchise sales now sit around 20 million copies. This is up from 17.5 million in the middle of December.

New sales data for Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition was not divulged.

Mojang announced earlier this month that it sold more than 15 million Minecraft games in 2012, with the Pocket Edition outpacing all the rest, selling 5.9 million copies during the year.

A version of Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi credit-card-sized computer is also in development.

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